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The 701st chapter is no war in the southwest (8)

After traveling through the Miaoling Mountains in central Guizhou for more than a month, and fighting more than ten battles with the Ming army chasing behind him. An Kun led the Shuixi Alliance, composed of Yi and Miao people, to suffer a lot of losses, and now there are less than 30,000 people left. But nothing is a problem. Anshun City is right in front of you. No matter how powerful the Ming army can fight, it is still at the end of its strength. As long as you enter the city and get supplies, you can defeat the Ming army.

An Kun thought it was pretty good, but there was often a gap between ideals and reality. As soon as An Kun saw the Anshun city wall, he saw the Anshun city gate open, and tens of thousands of troops rushed out from it.

An Kun was very familiar with the soldiers of the garrison in Guizhou. He knew that the soldiers of the Ming army in Guizhou were all equipped, most of them were peasants, and those who could really fight were the commanders and guards. However, the Ming army that came out of Anshun City was not like that. They were all wearing bright armor and shining weapons in their hands. The soldiers were all young and strong, and there was no one over forty years old. This was not the Ming army in Guizhou that An Kun remembered.

The Ming army that came out of Anshun City was the army led by Li Chengdong. Li Chengdong had already reached Guangnan Prefecture in Yunnan, and the next step was to attack Sun Kewang's nest Kunming. But he knew that the emperor had an edict to ask him to go to Guizhou to assist in the war. Li Chengdong had no choice but to receive the edict. The subordinates he led were all Zhu Hongsan's confidants. If he did not listen to the emperor's orders, these guys could kill him and go to Guizhou alone. There was no way Li Chengdong had to turn the direction of the attack and enter Guizhou from Guangnan Prefecture through Anlongsi in Guangxi.

Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang was originally in Anlong House. When he learned that the Guangdong New Army was coming from behind, he had no choice but to flee with his family. This time he went directly to Yunnan and went to Kunming. Sun Kewang was overjoyed when he learned that Zhu Youlang had arrived, and immediately controlled the emperor and established himself as King of Qin. Then he named Li Dingguo the King of Xining and Liu Wenxiu the King of Funan. At the suggestion of his aides, he wanted to imitate Cao Cao's method of "using the emperor to command the princes" to suppress Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others.

Li Dingguo was originally stronger than Sun Kewang, but his direct line suffered great losses in the battle of Guangzhou. After fleeing Guangzhou, he returned to Chuxiong Mansion in Yunnan, slowly accumulating strength and refused to comment on the orders sent by Sun Kewang to go to Qujing to deploy defense.

Seeing that Li Dingguo did not listen to him, Sun Kewang had no choice but to transfer 80,000 troops from Liu Wenxiu, who was far away in Sichuan, and stationed in Qujing to prevent the Ming army from entering Yunnan from Guizhou.

Li Chengdong received a secret report from the Jinyiwei. Sun Kewang from Yunnan was prepared and sighed in his heart: He originally wanted to attack Kunming and eliminate Sun Kewang in one fell swoop, but now the emperor asked him to go to Anshun. Now he has time to prepare for Sun Kewang. It will be many times more difficult to conquer Yunnan by then. You must know that the Western Army has basically suffered no losses now. There are more than 200,000 soldiers, and he has only 50,000 Ming troops under his command, which is really difficult to fight.

But there is no way to complain. Although Li Chengdong was the commander of the expedition to Yunnan, his officers were all Zhu Hongsan's confidants. Li Chengdong had to take these 50,000 troops to attack Anshun according to the emperor's wishes.

Li Chengdong captured Anshun in early August, and Emperor Yongli ran away. There were only less than 3,000 defenders in Anshun City. When Anshun Magistrate saw that there were tens of thousands of troops outside the city, he did not resist at all, and directly opened the city to surrender.

The next two months of waiting was waiting. It was not until October that Li Chengdong received news from the emperor's spy on the Jinyiwei that the Yi people were finally coming.

Li Chengdong's men were all new forces, and his swords, guns, armor was far superior to these Shuixi Allied Forces. As soon as he came into contact, he immediately defeated the Yi people who had exhausted their strength.

When An Kun saw that there was a chasing soldier in front of him, he sighed and wanted to commit suicide with a knife. But his clan uncle An Chongsheng stopped An Kun.

"An Kun, you can't die! If these Han people want to subdue me, Shuixi, they must need people to govern the Yi people. My An family has been in Shuixi for thousands of years. The Han emperor will also rely on the reputation of you, the envoy of Shuixi Xuanwei!"

"But uncle, now we have been defeated, what else can we do to discuss the conditions with the Han people?"

"The millions of Yi people over the water west are the conditions. No matter how powerful the Han people are, can they still kill all the Yi people? You still want to change the land and return to Liu in the water west. An Kun, it is better to be a liberated official than to die now!"

As long as you can live, who wants to die? An Kun heard what An Chongsheng said make sense, so he had no choice but to pass an order to let his subordinates put down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army.

At this time, the 45,000 musketeers led by Zhu Hongsan also chased after him and joined forces with Li Chengdong's 50,000 troops to surround the remaining 30,000 Shuixi Allied Forces.

Zhu Hongsan has been very hard this month and the roads in Guizhou are difficult, and horses cannot pass in some places. There is no way that Zhu Hongsan has to hand over his horse to the artillery troops to pull cannons. He can only walk through the Miaoling Mountains. Now seeing the Shuixi Allied Forces in the encirclement kneeling and surrendering, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be happy. As long as these Yi armed forces were eliminated, the rest would be to deal with the Yi people, and his southwest strategy would be half successful.

At this time, Li Chengdong from Anshun learned that the emperor was coming, and quickly brought the deputy general Jin Daoming and several senior officers to pay homage to Zhu Hongsan.

Although Zhu Hongsan was embarrassed, he was in good spirits. When he saw Li Chengdong coming, he smiled and said, "Old Li, you have half of the credit for the successful consortium this time!"

Li Chengdong's wealth and life are now in the hands of Zhu Hongsan, and he no longer dares to talk to the emperor like before. He heard the emperor teasing him and bowed and said, "Where are the ministers who act according to the emperor's orders, and the credits are all from His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Old Li, you are just like to tell the truth. I just like you, haha!" Zhu Hongsan shamelessly attributed all the credit.

Li Chengdong laughed dryly with Zhu Hongsan, and then asked: "Your Majesty, the Yi people have surrendered now. What should we do next?"

"Well, that's it! Take An Kun first, and then Lao Li, you and your army will take the remaining 30,000 Yi people to..." Zhu Hongsan looked up and saw a small river outside Anshun City passing through the city, pointing to the small river and saying, "Prepare it to the edge of the river and beheaded and executed!"

Li Chengdong was originally a murderous devil. The three slaughtered people in Jiading were his work, and it is no problem to kill more than 30,000 people now. However, the words of Emperor Zhu Hongsan made Hou Fangyu very disgusted.

Hou Fangyu was deeply educated by Confucianism, and there was no way to be killed or injured in the war, but now massacres and surrenders are really harmful to the heavens.

Hou Fangyu stood up and said, "Your Majesty, why do those Yi people still kill them since they surrender? They are also people of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Hongsan frowned when he heard Hou Fangyu say this. He was very disgusted with someone's objection to his orders. The responsibility of the Military Affairs Office is to kneel down and accept the transcripts. You just need to execute them. How can you talk nonsense? The military affairs officer Zhang Jiayu and Zhang Huangyan of the Military Affairs Office were like this. You Hou Fangyu are brave and dare to question the emperor's orders?

But Zhu Hongsan could not denounce Hou Fangyu. After all, Hou Fangyu was his brother-in-law at first sight, and he couldn't stand the face of Li Xiangjun.

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to explain patiently: "Chaozong, our army is short of military rations and has a limited number of people, so we really can't afford to support so many people. In addition, these Yi people have been fighting with our army for a long time, and the hatred is as deep as the sea. It is not something that can be influenced by a gentle policy. Don't worry about Chaozong!"

"But Your Majesty, aren't there any military rations in Anshun City?" Hou Fangyu knew that the words the emperor said were completely far-fetched. Our soldiers were limited. There are now 100,000 people outside the city and less than 30,000 Yi talents. Are you afraid that you can't control the Yi people?

When Zhu Hongsan heard Hou Fangyu still argue, he said angrily: "Okay, Chaozong, you are my military ambition, not a censor, do your own business!" After Zhu Hongsan said that, he waved his hand and asked Li Chengdong to go down and arrange it.

At this time, An Kun and several chieftains were tied up with their hands and pressed up. Zhu Hongsan saw An Kun coming and smiled and said, "An Xuan comforting envoy, how about it? You can't defeat my Ming Dynasty Imperial Army!"

An Kun's life was at the hands of Zhu Hongsan at this time, and he did not dare to refute it. In order to survive, he had to kneel down and said, "Your Majesty, I am really bewitched. I am overestimating my abilities and want to fight against Your Majesty. Please spare me!"

"Oh? Someone bewitched you? It's that, let's hear it!"

An Kun had no choice but to grit his teeth and said, "It's my uncle An Chongsheng, he was all bewitching me from sending troops!"

An Chongsheng was stunned behind An Kun, and after a long time of reaction, he cursed: "An Kun, you beast, didn't you insist on starting an army to regain Lu's family? Why is it counted on me?"

Zhu Hongsan looked at An Chongsheng who was furious and did not speak. He just waved his hand and rushed out from behind, and cut off An Chongsheng's head with a knife in front of An Kun.

When An Kun saw An Chongsheng's bloody head and his eyes dying with his eyes, he silently said in his heart: Uncle, there is no way, I can only betray you to survive!

After killing An Chongsheng, Zhu Hongsan asked the chieftains behind An Kun: "Where are you chieftains? Why did you send troops to oppose me?"

At this time, a young man on the right side of An Kun shouted: "Your Majesty, I am Lu Yinglong, the son of Zhaotong Chieftain, and Lu Riguo is my sister, my dear sister!"

Of course, Zhu Hongsan knew who Lu Riguo was, the stolen wife of An Kun, who slept with Zhu Hongsan for several months.

"Oh? So you are my brother-in-law? Why did you send troops to oppose me?"

Lu Yinglong quickly said, "I don't know that my sister and Your Majesty have a deep relationship. It's just that my father Lu Guang was instigated by An Kun, so he sent soldiers to join the Shuixi Alliance Army. The emperor's brother-in-law, it's all An Kun's fault!"

An Kun heard that Lu Yinglong put all the shit on his head in order to survive, and his face turned pale and could not speak for a moment.

Zhu Hongsan was so happy that he saw these Yi chieftains rebelling in order to survive.
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